ABSTRACT
This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.
Sustainable diets seek to minimise and mitigate the significant negative impact food production has on the environment. Simultaneously they aim to address worrying health trends in food consumption through the promotion of healthy diets that reduce premature disability, disease and death. Within the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets, creative, compassionate, critical, and collaborative solutions are called for across nations, across disciplines and sectors. In order to address these wide-ranging issues the volume is split into sections dealing with environmental strategies, health and well-being, education and public engagement, social policies and food environments, transformations and food movements, economics and trade, design and measurement mechanisms and food sovereignty. Comprising of contributions from up and coming and established academics, the handbook provides a global, multi-disciplinary assessment of sustainable diets, drawing on case studies from regions across the world. The handbook concludes with a call to action, which provides readers with a comprehensive map of strategies that could dramatically increase sustainability and help to reverse global warming, diet related non-communicable diseases, and oppression and racism.
This decisive collection is essential reading for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with promoting sustainable diets and thus establishing a sustainable food system to ensure access to healthy and nutritious food for all.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Framing and vision
chapter 3|10 pages
Reframing the sustainable diets narrative
part 2|106 pages
Environmental strategies
chapter 11|10 pages
Life, death, and dinner among the molluscs
chapter 13|11 pages
Re-meatification
part 3|66 pages
Health and well-being
chapter 16|12 pages
Eating for health and the environment
chapter 17|12 pages
Breastfeeding
chapter 18|17 pages
Towards more comprehensive analyses of the nutrition transition among adolescents in the rural South
part 4|88 pages
Education and public engagement
chapter 20|15 pages
Food literacy, pedagogies, and dietary guidelines
chapter 23|11 pages
Prefigurative spaces of critical food literacy
chapter 25|11 pages
Broadening our definition of sustainable food
part 5|62 pages
Social policies and food environments
chapter 26|11 pages
(Re)building sustainable City Region Food Systems after COVID-19
chapter 29|13 pages
Odisha Millet Mission
part 6|62 pages
Transformations and food movements
chapter 35|9 pages
Sectors of society supporting sustainable diets
part 7|78 pages
Economics and trade
chapter 39|15 pages
Tomorrow's agri-food system
chapter 40|17 pages
Circular bioeconomy of agri-food value chains
part 8|56 pages
Design and measurement mechanisms
chapter 43|14 pages
Measuring the sustainability of food systems
chapter 45|16 pages
Technology, digitalisation, and AI for sustainability
part 9|108 pages
Food sovereignty and case studies
chapter 47|13 pages
Food security, sufficiency, and affordability in Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 48|12 pages
Millets and kīrai
chapter 49|16 pages
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable diets in India
chapter 51|12 pages
Bio-cultural diversity in South America
chapter 52|12 pages
Climate transformations
part 10|32 pages
Calls to action